James H. Rowe

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James H. Rowe Jr.
Rowe in 1939
Born(1909-06-01)June 1, 1909
Butte, Montana, U.S.
DiedJune 17, 1984(1984-06-17) (aged 75)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma materHarvard College
Harvard Law School
OccupationLawyer

James H. Rowe Jr. (June 1, 1909 – June 17, 1984) was an American

Harry Truman to work on the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, commonly known as the Hoover Commission.[1] He was a political strategist in the Democratic Party and is best known for his memo to Truman on re-election strategy.[2] He was an advisor to both Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey
.

Early life and education

Rowe was born to James Rowe and his wife, in Butte, Montana.[3][4]

Rowe attended

law degree
.

Career

After graduating, Rowe held the office of Secretary to

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. In 1935, he moved over to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, where he served as a legal adviser; he spent most of the rest of 1935 to 1939 moving from one New Deal agency to another before he was, from 1939 to 1941, Administrative Assistant to the President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[citation needed
]

In 1941 to 1945, during the

Francis Beverley Biddle brought Jim Rowe with him when Biddle was assigned to be a judge at the Nuremberg trials. Rowe and Adrian Fisher, with Robert Stewart, Judge John J. Parker's assistant, drafted the judgments that the American judges would make on each defendant.[5]

After the war, he moved over to the

US budget. From there, he moved to the Hoover Commission. Rowe's demands from the commission ensured that its final report would be delayed until after November 1948 election.[citation needed
]

Indeed, Rowe played another role before the election; he was a member of the six-men legal team that fought in September 1948 to get

Benjamin Victor Cohen.[citation needed
]

Rowe continued public sector employment during the

Eisenhower administration, Rowe returned to the private sector and resumed his legal practice.[citation needed
]

In the private sector, Rowe still maintained his activism within the political process in the Democratic Party. In 1960, he was the

Hubert H. Humphrey in his unsuccessful bid to become the President.[citation needed] In 1972, he aligned with forces intent on denying the Democratic presidential nomination to George McGovern by maneuver in the Credentials Committee prior to the nominating convention. "(T)he majority of us Democrats don't like McGovern; and so long as we have any power left, we plan to use it," he said.[6]

In addition, in 1965 to 1971, Rowe served as a member of Harvard University's Board of Overseers.[citation needed]

Personal life and death

Rowe married Elizabeth Holmes Ulman on September 6, 1937, at her parents’ home in Washington, DC.[4] They had three children: Elizabeth, Clarissa, and James.[3]

Rowe died on June 17, 1984, in

New York Times on June 19, 1984.[7]

References

  1. New York Times
    . Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  2. ^ Caro 2002, p. 656.
  3. ^
    ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved May 3, 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Miss Anna Mae Noonan Becomes Bride of James V. Case Miss Elizabeth Holmes Ulman Married to Mr. James Henry Rowe, Jr". Evening Star. September 7, 1937. p. 21. Retrieved May 3, 2023.
  5. ISBN 0-06-015117-X
    , Part V, "Judgment," Ch. 55, "Deliberation," p. 482.
  6. ISBN 0-689-10553-3
    .
  7. New York Times
    . June 19, 1984.

Bibliography

  • Caro, Robert A. (2002). The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate. New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf.

External links
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